Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild resolvers to strip the alternatives (after arch reduction), which will make them behave pretty much

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most pragmatic approach will be to get the apt and aptitude sbuild resolvers to strip the alternatives

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-02-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:27:00PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:40:52PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: From discussion on IRC earlier this evening, it looks like the most pragmatic approach will be to get

Bug#614807: debian-policy: Please document autobuilder-imposed build-dependency alternative restrictions

2011-02-23 Thread Roger Leigh
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: normal Patch attached. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.27-kvm-i386-20110114 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8,

Bug#614807: debian-policy: Please document autobuilder-imposed build-dependency alternative restrictions

2011-02-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 05:52:27PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org (23/02/2011): From: Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:14:56 + Subject: [PATCH] Document restrictions on alternative build dependencies The Debian autobuilders

Bug#614807: debian-policy: Please document autobuilder-imposed build-dependency alternative restrictions

2011-02-23 Thread Sean Finney
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 18:22 +, Roger Leigh wrote: Yes, this might need rewording. Some people claimed it was useful for backports, so if the backports buildds are using the aptitude resolver, they could make use of the alternatives without any changes to debian/control; maybe it could be